{Murder of 75-year-old whose body was found in a temple follows spree of similar killings in the country.}<\/p>\n
A 75-year-old Buddhist monk has been hacked to death inside a temple in Bangladesh, police said.<\/p>\n
The body of Mongsowe U Chak was found on Saturday at the isolated temple where he lived alone in Naikkhangchhari village in Bandarban, about 338km (211 miles) southeast of the capital Dhaka, police said.<\/p>\n
Police said they did not know the motive of the killing and no one had been arrested. <\/p>\n
The killing of the Buddhist monk follows similar murders of two prominent gay activists, a law student, a Hindu tailor and a university professor in April.<\/p>\n
“His body was found with a slit throat. Police are saying he was most likely killed on Friday night,” Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chauwdhury said, reporting from Dhaka.<\/p>\n
“From 2013 until now we have seen a spree of murders in similar fashion … This is a major concern for the Bangladesh government.”<\/p>\n
Chauwdhury said that the government was adament that local “extremist groups” carried out such attacks, adding that in some cases blame was pointed at opposition groups.<\/p>\n
“[But] very few are brought to justice,” Chauwdhury said.<\/p>\n
The Muslim-majority nation of 160 million people has seen a surge in violent attacks over the past few months in which liberal activists, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups have been targeted.<\/p>\n
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) has claimed responsibility for some of the killings. The government, though, denies the group has a presence in the country, saying homegrown groups are behind the attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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